@UssamaMakdisi 2/ Ultimately, it transpires that the precarious thread of a 'transcendent falsehood' is all that secures the social bonding and psychological stability of societies complicit in collectively sanctioning 'morally-justified violence' against an internal scapegoat or foreign foe.
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Copy of tweet here: Niebhur noted that not only is kindness no protection from the prey of delusion, but that kind folk, _especially_, underestimate their own capacity for self deception. Rohr, too, echoes Girard in noting the scapegoat mechanism as mimetic, unconscious, automatic and universal. Quote tweet: ‘Sacred violence provides the state with its legitimacy and fuels the optimism and idolatry of the patriot. It sanctions the judiciary, justifies class distinctions, bestows privilege on the ‘best people’ and dignifies the executioner.’ - Robert Hamerton-Kelly 4/
@MichelleLZier @lukeburgis "Perhaps the clearest sign that we’re making progress will be when more policy proposals sincerely surprise us.” The contagion, now globally self-justifying. As Girard intuited, such totalizing, mimetic escalation ultimately warrants conclusive intervention at a planetary level.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Precisely Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1688071974722084864 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @ceisenstein Precisely. And then, of course, there's the scapegoat mechanism exponentiated to the geopolitical level of nation-state dynamics. Country Club derangement. t.co/eWzmGqLkGp t.co/980UVZePhb Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Tiny nested thumbnail left of Apr21 2022 Nothing new post; quoted text headed Illich and ending 8/", "reason": "Thumbnail within full-resolution original is only approximately100x100 pixels. Whole left/right parts of lines and posting handle are clipped in thumbnail; fragments do not identify an exact saved source after distinctive phrase searches. Main post and three other bodies fully checked; this particular thumbnail cannot be reconstructed or reliably attributed beyond visible Illich reference."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Marc Andreessen Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I predict essentially identical Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. John Robb In the future, meaningful dissent may never be allowed to form in opposition to a swarm due to corporate efforts to control and confine public debate. We're close to that, but apparently, not there yet. Depends what you mean by 'meaningful'. The extensive de-platforming, financial and otherwise, of independent media organizations and individuals questioning the official version of reality, is already well-advanced. @johnpilger @MintPressNews@Consortiumnews :@pmarca I predict essentially identical censorship/deplatforming policies across all layers of the legacy Internet stack. Client-side & server-side ISPs, cloud platforms, CDNs, payment networks, client OSs, browsers, email clients. With only rare exceptions. The pressure is intense. Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Tiny nested thumbnail left of Apr21 2022 Nothing new post; quoted text headed Illich and ending 8/", "reason": "Thumbnail within full-resolution original is only approximately100x100 pixels. Whole left/right parts of lines and posting handle are clipped in thumbnail; fragments do not identify an exact saved source after distinctive phrase searches. Main post and three other bodies fully checked; this particular thumbnail cannot be reconstructed or reliably attributed beyond visible Illich reference."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Girard Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 Nothing new Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @johnrobb 1/ Nothing new under the sun, as they say. Not 'moral' or 'empathetic' as much as powerfully demonstrating the 'mimetic, unconscious, automatic and universal' mechanism sustaining "the essential complicity between violence and human culture." (Girard) t.co/lYNKT2oaKe Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Tiny nested thumbnail left of Apr21 2022 Nothing new post; quoted text headed Illich and ending 8/", "reason": "Thumbnail within full-resolution original is only approximately100x100 pixels. Whole left/right parts of lines and posting handle are clipped in thumbnail; fragments do not identify an exact saved source after distinctive phrase searches. Main post and three other bodies fully checked; this particular thumbnail cannot be reconstructed or reliably attributed beyond visible Illich reference."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Clearly Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1688071974722084864 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @ceisenstein Clearly, the supercharged universality of this phenomenon - pat, predictable, cookie-cutter dialectics of ethnonationalism, purity and exclusion, span a dizzying array of languages, cultures and borders, just now - powerfully affirms its common, transcultural, archetypal origins. t.co/pPoByd1kxb Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Tiny nested thumbnail left of Apr21 2022 Nothing new post; quoted text headed Illich and ending 8/", "reason": "Thumbnail within full-resolution original is only approximately100x100 pixels. Whole left/right parts of lines and posting handle are clipped in thumbnail; fragments do not identify an exact saved source after distinctive phrase searches. Main post and three other bodies fully checked; this particular thumbnail cannot be reconstructed or reliably attributed beyond visible Illich reference."}]
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